Identifier: charactersketche00inbrew (find matches)
Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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ESMERALDA

G. Brion, Artist

In the vast space left free between the crowd and the fire, a young girl
was ancing.
" She was not tall, but seemed to be, so proudly erect did she hold
her slender figure. She was brown, but it was evident that by daylight her
skin must have that lovely golden gleam peculiar to Spanish and Roman
beauties. Her tiny foot was Andalusian, too, for it fitted both snugly and
easily into its dainty shoe. She danced, she turned, she twirled upon an
antique Persian carpet thrown carelessly beneath her feet; and every time
her radiant figure passed, as she turned, her great black eyes sent forth
lightning flashes.
" Upon her every eye was riveted, every mouth gaped wide ; and in very
truth as she danced to the tune of the tambourine which her round and grace-
ful arms held high above her head, slender, quick and aclive as any wasp,
with smooth-fitting golden bodice, her many-colored full skirt, her bare
shoulders, her shapely legs, from which her skirts now and then swung
away, her black hair, her eyes of flame, she seemed more than mortal
creature. Vicor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris."
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ESMERALDA.

ERTANAX 391 ESPRIELLA

a manner of kind that whoso handleth them he
shall have so much courage that he shall never
be weary, and he shall not think on joy nor
sorrow that he hath had, but only on the thing
he beholdeth before him.—Sir T. Malory, History
of Prince Arthur, iii. 84, (1470).

Erudite (Most). Marcus Terentius
Varro is called " the most erudite of the
Romans (b.c. 116-27).

Er'ythre, modesty personified, the
virgin page of Parthenia or maiden of
chastity, in The Purple Island, by Phineas
Fletcher (1633). Fully described in canto
X. (Greek, cruthros, " red," from eruthriao,
"to blush.")

Erysichthon (Erri. sik'. thon), a grand-
son of Neptune, who was punished by
Ceres with insatiable hunger, for cutting
down some trees in a grove sacred to that
goddess. (See Erisichthon.)

Es'calus, an ancient, kind-hearted lord
in the deputation of the duke of Vienna.—
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603).

Escalus, Prince of Verona.—Shake-
speare, Romeo and Juliet (1598).

Es'canes (3 syl.), on of the lords of
Tyre.—Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of
Tyre (1608)

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